How many days of holiday, leave, sick days do you get?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

How many days do you get, and do you feel it is enough to restore you?

What do you think is a generous amount, and what is measly?

I know MN is mainly UK but interested in responses from all countries. I'm looking for jobs in the US, and my god it is so complicated! All companies have different mixes of vacation days, personal days, holidays (pretty much think this is like bank hols, and if the office is closed for Christmas etc) and then rather confusingly - a set amount of sick days.

People should take into account paid sick leave entertainment before accepting a job offer. No one plans to be long-term sick but it can happen to anyone. I've worked for a health charity and seen people on a six figure salary suddenly dip into poverty if the employer only offers SSP.

40 days holiday (8 full weeks as I work full time) but we work bank holidays and have no time off over Christmas except xmas day as I work in retail.

37 days + bank hols+ Christmas shut down.

I don't think 20 days is enough at all really.

It's interesting reading the replies, it all varies so much.

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays. 4 months worth of sick leave on full pay.

Local government - it would be 28 days plus BH if I worked full time.
Sickness I think is 6 month full pay but I sincerely hope I never need that.

33 days annual leave, sick pay 6 months full pay, 6 months half-pay.

I "buy" another week of annual leave, so get 38 days in total. I only do 17 hours a week, and don't work on Mondays or Fridays, so get more added on because of the bank holiday adjustment.

I'm off work more than I'm there, and regard myself as semi-retired (retiring properly next year, at last - hurray!).

None. I work for myself.

UK corporate

25 days hols plus eight UK bank holidays.

plus one additional day per full year of service up to a maximum of five extra days

Plus opportunity to purchase a further additional five days.

Plus a Maximum of five days can be carried forward to the next holiday year

A maximum of forty days per year.

Some flexibility before COVID to WFH to cover being at home for things like a boiler service or delivery, now WFH for the foreseeable so less relevant.

Rolling Six months full pay in case of sickness, early retirement in grounds of sickness at 60% page funded by pension insurance service

Colleagues in US get 10 days and pressure to not use them all. Sigh.

Academic. 30 days leave plus bank holidays. No TOIL as we don't have any set working hours.

5 months full pay, 5 months half.

As many or as few as I like- self employed. No pay though when I am not working.

Plus bank hols and a privilege day for the Queen’s birthday.

28 days including Bank Holidays, No sick pay (SSP only).

Scotland based. I get 32 days + 4 bank holidays. I always buy more (i.e. unpaid leave), pre DS I bought 5. Now I buy the max of 10 to cover toddler related illness. I think the UK legal minimum is 28 days (including bank holidays), this is what DH gets.

My contract states that I will be on full pay for 6 months with sickness but there are no set number of days you can take. HR will get involved if you having frequent sick days, always take Fridays off, etc.

the US is so different in comparison when it comes to things like this - it's one of the things that put me off moving there a few years ago.

in my (UK) job:

30 days leave plus all bank holidays

6 months full pay, 6 months half pay sick

22 days plus the bank holidays & an extra day for a local bank holiday.

Contractually SSP but I've not had a day off sick in 15 years & employer has paid colleagues full pay if its legitimate sickness.

I do 4 days at home & 1 in the office (a Monday so I'm not having to go into office on a short week). Flexibility to take time out during the day & make up later if I want/need to.

Zomg people have so much leave! I've always assumed reading threads that a lot of posters here work in the public sector and it would seem to be borne out by the posters here at least.

Private sector, we get 25 days including Christmas to new year (non optional, the office shuts down and we all have to use leave), plus bank holidays, 6 days paid leave. Theoretically we can buy 5 more days but with US bosses it can be hard enough even to get to use the days we have, and as you get more senior you're expected to still be on your email etc while away.

We should include maternity too as that varies hugely - mine is 22 weeks full pay then smp.

23 annual leave plus BK. 5 paid sick days (after 2 years service), after 5 days it’s SSP.

I'm in Europe
10 bank holidays
48 days holiday (can buy up to 20 more)
9 days carer leave

@Dancingdeer77

Well standard in U.K. is 20 days plus bank holidays (or days in lieu). So I think 25 days plus bank holidays or more is good. I also look at paid parental leave policies.

That's the minimum not the standard.

I get 36 days plus all bank holidays.

32 days holiday (10 years long service, started on 27)
8 paid bank holidays
3 paid days for domestic emergencies
2 paid days for voluntary work
5 months full sick pay followed by up to 5 months half pay (I think, they reduced it recently)
Flexi time
Paid and unpaid special leave for bereavement, divorce etc is discretionary

Works for me

In UK, working 4 days a week. 28 days holiday, including bank holidays. I don't know what the sick leave policy is, I don't think I've had more than 1 day off per year in the last 10 years.

@MaryShelley1818

31 days Annual Leave All 8 Bank Holidays Ability to use 13 Flexi Days (obviously if time accrued) 6 mths full pay sick pay followed by 6 months half pay.

Same. Also close over Christmas (from Christmas Eve until 2nd Jan).

I got 30 days plus 10.5 bank Holidays, 15 days care leave. On top of that I could take 2.5 days flexi every 4 weeks & twice a year that was increased to a week.